Standardized tests claim to measure student learning, academic achievement, and college readiness. What they actually measure ...

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We teachers know that testing can be good—when it is used to inform instruction. What we’re not so good at is understanding and then teaching our students how testing can be a tremendous tool for ...

Here comes another standardized testing season with all the administrator anxiety, teacher turmoil and student disaffection. So much of it that, at least in high schools, those mass assessments do as ...

I started testing software back in college. That was over 20 years ago, when the world was worried about the potential apocalypse that would hit humanity at midnight on December 31, 1999. Maybe it was ...

In schools across the U.S., multiple-choice questions such as this one provoke anxiety, even dread. Their appearance means it is testing time, and tests are big, important, excruciatingly unpleasant ...

Many schools have become places where standardized testing (and preparing for testing, and practicing for testing) eclipse inquiry and learning — places where a teacher has to strip away evidence of ...